Category: Everything Else

I love Etsy. I have a lot of favorite stores on there, and now I have another: momonomo. I found her by going from blog to blog, you know how it goes. She featured an awesome hirigana quilt (a Japanese alphabet) on her blog. She mentioned that she was hoping for orders for them so I contacted her. My quilt arrived Monday. I should say Tuesday's quilt. Bj and I got it to hopefully fuel a love of languages (we both took Japanese in high school). (you read this from the top right, and then down each row right to…

Once your house gets ripped apart it's the waiting for it to be put back together that seems to drag on and on. Today things really seem to be turning more towards that putting back, and I am so grateful. First of all that arch that I've missed, it's back! He asked me if it looked like it did before, and I looked for pictures, but turns out I need to zoom out more when I shoot the house. This was the closest I could find (looking back through the my cottage category makes me miss the tidiness so badly).…

Two days ago I came back from a walk around my neighborhood to teenagers in my yard with chainsaws. This is never a sight one wants to see, especially when they have ropes dangling from the tops of arborvitae separating you and a neighbor (and the view of the intersection). I was upset, though the plants are clearly on mixed soil. I don't know who planted them, or when, but they've been there for a while. I was mad, mostly that my neighbor didn't talk to us about it, that he used my yard to do all the work,etc. Bj…